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Amplify’s Been Quiet. Here’s Where CEO Larry Berger Says It’s Going in 2018

Edsurge

Teachers do them on a mobile device or a laptop, or they do them one-on-one with kids. And that’s the thing we started doing back in 2003, which has grown and evolved. We don’t actually have a great library of the next thing to give them. Then, over the last decade we’ve started to do more and more in curriculum.

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PROOF POINTS: The value of one-size-fits-all math homework

The Hechinger Report

Unlike other popular math practice sites, such as Khan Academy, IXL or ALEKS, in which a computer controls the content, ASSISTments keeps the control levers with the teachers, who pick the questions they like from a library of 200,000. It had distributed laptops to every middle school student years before the ASSISTments experiment.

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The breaking point that led to my sabbatical (and what’s next)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I remember as a teacher checking out stacks of professional development books from the library and reading them poolside in the summer over my break and creating new activities to do with my kids. . I try to shut the laptop in the afternoon and not look at or think about any of it again until morning.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. Every child would have access to a laptop loaded with software for phonics and numeracy, because Johnson believed children needed a lot of practice in these areas. Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs.

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Media Literacy Resources for Classrooms

Graphite Blog

You'll need to pay for each course, but once you do it'll be in your library forever. Most Popular Websites 1996-2019 and Most Popular Social Networks 2003-2019 (by Data Is Beautiful): These two mesmerizing videos will help students place today's web in context, and gain a big-picture understanding of how platforms come and go.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

But you can own access to the full library by buying the Summit all-access pass, which is $99, a $50 savings from the price after the 25th. The Science Leadership Academy is an inquiry-driven, project-based, 1:1 laptop school that is considered to be one of the pioneers of the School 2.0 See you "online!" airing on Discovery in 2020.)

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

E-rate is the name commonly used to describe the Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, established as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The burden of proof that schools and libraries are being offered a competitive price falls on the applicants themselves. Who has benefited?

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